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Heading North towards Central Otago (Queenstown, Wanaka etc) or the West Coast (Greymouth, Wesport etc) just take high way State Highway 6. High way State Highway 6 is the main street through the city, in the south of the city it's called Clyde Street, in the middle of the city it's known as Dee Street and at the north end it's called North Road. The road is quite wide in most places and there are many places for cars to see you and space to pull over.  ==Heading North and Via the East Coast== State Highway 1 goes through most of the major cities in NZ. Hitching north to Gore, Dunedin, Timaru, Christchurch this is the way to go. It's usually fairly easy to get a ride when you wait a hundred meters or so down from the corner of Racecourse and East Roads (East Road is part of State Highway 1).